You’ll never guess what I found: My book notebook! Yea, verily, the little black notebook that I write down everything I read in. Once upon a time I planned on doing a Sunday Books of the Year list at the last day of every year, but after 2005, every time New Years rolled around, I either couldn’t find my notebook or I was in the process of moving and really couldn’t find my notebook.

But, no matter! We can always play catchup! Anyway, years passed when I barely read anything at all. Not included are rereads, only new books I’d never read before. Nor do I include cookbooks and baby name books and decorating books other things that mark the passing of time (of which there were many, especially around 2008, especially cookbooks) these past 6 years but don’t really need to be included here.

(Small Print: I think between 2009 and 2010, when I had no idea where this notebook was, a few books may have gotten lost to the mists of time. However, when I did start reading again, I remember a certain feeling of elation so it wouldn’t surprise me that I just didn’t read anything for nearly a year.)

Highlights include Simon Brett’s Charles Paris mysteries (Cast, In Order of Disappearance, The Dead Side of the Mike, etc). About a barely-at-work actor in a grottier age of stardom solving murders. I was reading them at a rate of one a day back in late winter of this year.

If you have teenagers, I highly recommend the Full Metal Panic! series. Translated from the Japanese. Hilarious. Romantic. And exhibiting an anorakish level of military trivia.